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Relevância das Condições Meteorológicas para a Ocorrência da COVID-19
Relevance of Meteorological Conditions for the Occurrence of COVID-19

Desde a declaração da COVID-19 como Emergência Internacional de Saúde Pública (PHEIC) pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), tem-se tentado identificar factores que afectam o comportamento da pandemia para garantir melhor controlo. Dos diversos factores, os meteorológicos estão entre os mais ...

Mapping and Modelling Malaria Risk Areas Using Climate, Socio-Demographic and Clinical Variables in Chimoio, Mozambique

Background: Malaria continues to be a major public health concern in Africa. Approximately 3.2 billion people worldwide are still at risk of contracting malaria, and 80% of deaths caused by malaria are concentrated in only 15 countries, most of which are in Africa. These high-burden countries have achiev...

A country-wide malaria survey in Mozambique. II. Malaria attributable proportion of fever and establishment of malaria case definition in children across different epidemiological settings

Malar. j. (Online); 8 (74), 2009
Background: Protection against clinical malaria episodes is acquired slowly after frequent exposure to malaria parasites. This is reflected by a decrease with increasing age in both parasite density and incidence of clinical episodes. In many settings of stable malaria transmission, the presence...